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Large Language Models (LLM) and foundation models are popular as they offer new opportunities for individuals and businesses to improve natural language processing, interact with data, and retrieve information faster. However, training or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Herbert Woisetschläger , Alexander Isenko , Shiqiang Wang , Ruben Mayer , Hans-Arno Jacobsen

Large language models (LLMs) have shown remarkable performance across a wide range of applications, often outperforming human experts. However, deploying these gigantic models efficiently for diverse inference use cases requires carefully…

As large language models (LLMs) become widespread in various application domains, a critical challenge the AI community is facing is how to train these large AI models in a cost-effective manner. Existing LLM training plans typically employ…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Jehyeon Bang , Yujeong Choi , Myeongwoo Kim , Yongdeok Kim , Minsoo Rhu

Cloud-device collaboration leverages on-cloud Large Language Models (LLMs) for handling public user queries and on-device Small Language Models (SLMs) for processing private user data, collectively forming a powerful and privacy-preserving…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Yingyi Zhang , Pengyue Jia , Xianneng Li , Derong Xu , Maolin Wang , Yichao Wang , Zhaocheng Du , Huifeng Guo , Yong Liu , Ruiming Tang , Xiangyu Zhao

Deep learning (DL) has achieved notable successes in many machine learning tasks. A number of frameworks have been developed to expedite the process of designing and training deep neural networks (DNNs), such as Caffe, Torch and Theano.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-12-22 Hao Zhang , Zhiting Hu , Jinliang Wei , Pengtao Xie , Gunhee Kim , Qirong Ho , Eric Xing

The recent progress made in large language models (LLMs) has brought tremendous application prospects to the world. The growing model size demands LLM training on multiple GPUs, while data parallelism is the most popular distributed…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Mo Sun , Zihan Yang , Changyue Liao , Yingtao Li , Fei Wu , Zeke Wang

Recent years have witnessed a significant increase in the adoption of AI techniques to enhance electronic design automation. In particular, the emergence of Large Language Models (LLMs) has sparked significant interest in LLM-assisted…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Hao Mark Chen , Zehuan Zhang , Wanru Zhao , Nicholas Lane , Hongxiang Fan

In federated graph learning (FGL), a complete graph is divided into multiple subgraphs stored in each client due to privacy concerns, and all clients jointly train a global graph model by only transmitting model parameters. A pain point of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Bo Yan , Zhongjian Zhang , Huabin Sun , Mengmei Zhang , Yang Cao , Chuan Shi

The NVIDIA Collective Communication Library (NCCL) is a critical software layer enabling high-performance collectives on large-scale GPU clusters. Despite being open source with a documented API, its internal design remains largely opaque.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Zhiyi Hu , Siyuan Shen , Tommaso Bonato , Sylvain Jeaugey , Cedell Alexander , Eric Spada , James Dinan , Jeff Hammond , Torsten Hoefler

This paper presents a systematic review of the infrastructure requirements for deploying Large Language Models (LLMs) on-device within the context of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), focusing on both hardware and software…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Jeremy Stephen Gabriel Yee , Pai Chet Ng , Zhengkui Wang , Ian McLoughlin , Aik Beng Ng , Simon See

High-stakes decision domains are increasingly exploring the potential of Large Language Models (LLMs) for complex decision-making tasks. However, LLM deployment in real-world settings presents challenges in data security, evaluation of its…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Swati Sachan , Theo Miller , Mai Phuong Nguyen

The rapid growth of deep learning has driven exponential increases in model parameters and computational demands. NVIDIA GPUs and their CUDA-based software ecosystem provide robust support for parallel computing, significantly alleviating…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Jiaqi Lv , Xufeng He , Yanchen Liu , Xu Dai , Aocheng Shen , Yinghao Li , Jiachen Hao , Jianrong Ding , Yang Hu , Shouyi Yin

The growth of large language models (LLMs) increases challenges of accelerating distributed training across multiple GPUs in different data centers. Moreover, concerns about data privacy and data exhaustion have heightened interest in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Zhenheng Tang , Zichen Tang , Junlin Huang , Xinglin Pan , Rudan Yan , Yuxin Wang , Amelie Chi Zhou , Shaohuai Shi , Xiaowen Chu , Bo Li

Large Language Models (LLMs) face significant deployment challenges due to their substantial resource requirements. While low-bit quantized weights can reduce memory usage and improve inference efficiency, current hardware lacks native…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Pengxiang Zhao , Xiaoming Yuan

The attention layer, a core component of Transformer-based LLMs, brings out inefficiencies in current GPU systems due to its low operational intensity and the substantial memory requirements of KV caches. We propose a High-bandwidth…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Myunghyun Rhee , Joonseop Sim , Taeyoung Ahn , Seungyong Lee , Daegun Yoon , Euiseok Kim , Kyoung Park , Youngpyo Joo , Hoshik Kim

The common assumption in on-device AI is that GPUs, with their superior parallel processing, always provide the best performance for large language model (LLM) inference. In this work, we challenge this notion by empirically demonstrating…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Haolin Zhang , Jeff Huang

Multimodal Large Language Models (LLMs) are pivotal in revolutionizing customer support and operations by integrating multiple modalities such as text, images, and audio. Federated Prompt Learning (FPL) is a recently proposed approach that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Linh Tran , Wei Sun , Stacy Patterson , Ana Milanova

Deep Learning (DL) models have achieved superior performance. Meanwhile, computing hardware like NVIDIA GPUs also demonstrated strong computing scaling trends with 2x throughput and memory bandwidth for each generation. With such strong…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-05-26 Fuxun Yu , Di Wang , Longfei Shangguan , Minjia Zhang , Chenchen Liu , Xiang Chen

Deep learning (DL) shows its prosperity in a wide variety of fields. The development of a DL model is a time-consuming and resource-intensive procedure. Hence, dedicated GPU accelerators have been collectively constructed into a GPU…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-06-02 Wei Gao , Qinghao Hu , Zhisheng Ye , Peng Sun , Xiaolin Wang , Yingwei Luo , Tianwei Zhang , Yonggang Wen

Large Language Models (LLMs) deliver powerful AI capabilities but face deployment challenges due to high resource costs and latency, whereas Small Language Models (SLMs) offer efficiency and deployability at the cost of reduced performance.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Yi Chen , JiaHao Zhao , HaoHao Han